They call it 'speaking with authority'
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This is typically not unwittingly. Ie. SJ Gould fully knew that he was basically lying in the Mismeasure of Man, but he sincerely thought that it was required to achieve a greater good.
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...do you have an example? Purely hypothetical, of course!
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Imagine you are in front of an audience of evangelicals and sincerely voice the idea that evolution cannot explain the origin of species, then those people in the audience that think differently probably won't speak up, to avoid getting punished by the others.
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Cancel culture.
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Is there a name for meta-rhetorical breaks-downs in general? This isn't a fallacy or a rhetorical mistake; it's something different, and this class of events needs a name.
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this!
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False-Positive-Situation?
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